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The Miami Heraldi
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mmm Convention 72 War Buddies 30A The New Delegates 31 A What Saying 31A IIow Voting Went 31A Invisible Man? 31A Astrology 32A fouI-Up in Passes 33A Evans-Novack Column 33xV Republican Reaction 33A Flamingo Music IC Bag-Packing Begins 1C Feast on Gossin IE Showery Partly cloudy a few afternoon showers High in the upper 80s Low in the mid 70s Southeast winds 10 to IS mph Rain probability 30 per cent (Details Page 2A) Street 10 Cents 62nd No 228 Friday July 14 1972 Complete Newspaper Two Litm American Editions Are Published Daily McGovern Names Liberal Choice for exon A Missouri Xy" i I As lv'y vi S'4 jr1 if ins ry-: niWr asMT' i t- 4 tt Staff Photo by BOB EAST Sen Thomas Eaglelou Arrives at McGovern Beach Headquarters freshman senator accepted choice as running male Eaglelon Is Li ke McGovern In Thinking But Not Style is4 i money behind if their other demands were met ALL 1 13 passengers aboard the National Airlines I -fy A ve xVv I -y i i'4' S4 A-th i v-va Press Wirephoto jet originally commandeered on its final approach to John Kennedy International Air- Turn to Page 2A Col 1 sial clause inserted in the constitution in 1888 A majority of delegates at a New Orleans convention last year voted for its deletion but that vote fell short of the two-thirds required Even if the resolution to eliminate the clause had received a two-thirds majority this year it still would have needed ratification by a majority of the more than 2000 local Elks lodges The resolution was sponsored by the Madison Wis lodge which has sponsored similar resolutions at previous conventions Miamian Norman Reagan 34 Injured National Copilot he fractured pelvis in leaping off skyjacked plane in Texas Heavily Armed Skyjackers Fi -ee Hostages Surrender By ROBERT BOYD Herald Convention Bureau A slim handsome aggressive lawyer from St Louis Sen Thomas Eagleton is an ideological twin of Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern Both men have almost Selection Is Aimed At Labor Has Favorable Vole Rating By WILLIAM MONTALBANO Herald Convention Bureau George McGoverij Thursday chose Thomas Eagleton a little-known liberal senator from Missouri as his 1972 Democratic running male Eagleton 42 a Roman Catholic from St Louis will give the Democratic ticket youth charisma and ties with organized labor A former Missouri lieutenant governor with a proven vote-getting record Eagleton was an early supporter of Edmund Muskie Senate voting record parallels own liberal views CHOICE reflected his belief that a vice president should be close ideologically to the president in the event he must take over Edward Kennedy first choice for the No 2 spot declined the offer within minutes of nomination early Thursday Kennedy planned to come to the convention Connecticut Sen Abraham Ribicoff also refused the second spot and by one report so did Georgia Gov Jimmy Carter Florida Gov Reubin Askew ruled himself out before nomination McGovern finally settled on Eagleton after a lengthy round of talks Thursday ALTHOUGH HE offers no ideological or geographical balance Eagleton might expand appeal to Catholic blue-collar workers A graduate of Harvard Law School Eagleton was elected Missouri Attorney General at the age of 31 and four years later was successful in a bid for the lieutenant governorship He and his wife Barbara Ann have two children Terrence 13 and Christin 9 In his first term in the Senate Eagleton has compiled a liberal voting record particularly as an opponent of 'the war in Vietnam McGovern asked Mayor Kenneth Gibson of Newark NJ to nominate Eagleton ON WEDNESDAY Eagleton had indicated his interest in the vice presidential nomination He had told reporters he was one of three leading Turn to Page 30 A Col 6 WHERE TO FIND IT Amusements Bishop Classified Comics Crossword Deaths Editorials Financial Goren Hardit Horoscope Kofoed ID landers 3E I2F Latin News 6C I4D Living Today IE I2F MartenhoN I2F Movies I2C People EA Pope 90 Porter I2C Sports 7E Synagogues I2C Thosteson I3F TV-Radio EF 3D 20A IE 9D IF SE IE IIP Today's Chuckle A vacation is what you take when you take what been taking any longer Old Line Sounded In Paris Porter Thuy List Demands PARIS (AP) The Vietnam peace conference reopened Thursday after a 10-week break with both the Communists and Allies clinging to old positions But the US delegation spokesman said the negotiators agreed to hold a new meeting next Thursday This reinforced speculation that a new round of secret and possibly more fruitful talks may be pending Politburo member Le Due Tho of North Vietnam who held secret meetings in the past with Henry A Kissinger left Peking Thursday en route to Paris NORTH Vietnamese Ambassador Xuan Thuy laid new stress on a linkup of military and political solution to the war slightly rephrasing the old Communist demands without fundamentally changing them He insisted that the United States end support for the South Vietnamese president Nguy-- en Van Thieu to permit establishment of a coalition government to be followed by a ceasefire TTie US delegate William Porter reiterated the Allied position that a ceasefire should be put into effect first and then issues can be discussed by the Vietnamese among am sure I hope we will be discussing this matter he added The talks Thursday featured the familiar polemics that have marked the conference during its 3 years THERE WAS no evidence to support a July 8 statement by Kissinger President foreign affairs adviser that he had some reason to believe Hanoi would take a when the talks resumed If there was a relatively new approach it came in the unusually mild tones of a speech by the frequently tough-talking Porter who invited the attention of the Communist delegates to May 8 proposals for an Indochina ceasefire return of all American prisoners and complete withdrawal from Vietnam within four months of an agreement on the package Xuan Thuy and the Viet Mme Nguyen Thi Binh scorned plan and reiterated that the peace plan constitutes basis for a correct just logical and reasonable Turn to Page 2A Col 8 tiations They offered to compromise with demands by removing one of their closed-circuit television cam-e a and relocating the others so they would not disturb the challenger THE PROPOSED compromise was not enough can talk to Fischer when he is winning but not when he has said one US chess source Spassky 35 arrived about two minutes before the Xj Vt -w" It' t-i i identical voting records stamped in the midwestern progressive tradition Both have vigorously opposed the war and advocated sharp cuts in defense spending Eagleton was elected to the Senate in 1968 on a campaign calling for an unconditional halt to the bombing of something he was expected to say but he meant it And for that reason it seemed unlikely to most of his staff that McGovern would reach outside the political spectrum for example to United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock to fill the spot NOR WOULD McGoern make the vice presidential selection a precarious political balancing act designed 1 solely to heal breaches be-tween widely disparate wings of the party his staff maintained pull an said one adviser referring to John choice of Lyndon Johnson in 1960 This reasoning ruled out Wilbur Mills of Arkansas Turn to Page 30A Col 1 game clock on schedule at 5 pm (1 pm Miami time) sig- nailing that the American challenger had one hour to show up and make his first move When the hour was up Schmid examined the clock walked to the front of the stage and said: and gentlemen Mr Fischer did not appear in the playing hall According to rule No 5 if a player is more than one hour late he loses the game by Vi'S North Vietnam as indispensable to an honorable peace Young and witty Eagleton is known in Washington for the breezy informality with which he runs his office He will offer a considerable contrast in style to the low-key reserved McGovern Born Sept 4 1929 in St Louis he was educated at Amherst College and Harvard Law School His father Mark is a prominent St Louis lawyer who once was active in Republican politics The son became interested in politics early-and was elected circuit attorney for the city of St Louis in 1956 at age 26 He stayed in the circuit office for four years then put in four years as attorney general before serving as lieutenant governor from 1965-69 He beat Republican Rep Thomas Curtis in November 1968 for the Senate seat left vacant by Democrat Edward Long When he was sworn in early for his Senate seat it appeared for a tew minutes that a necessary certificate was missing Eagleton gasped when it was found was close been out of office for 34 minutes and the first time been off the public payroll in 12 years I quite afford In the Senate Eagleton concentrated on cutting military spending and on election reform and urban affairs He is chairman of the District of Columbia Committee and a member of the Labor Public Work and Aging committees Although he is a Catholic he played a leading role in drafting and passing legislation setting up the federal government's first office of family planning Eagleton served as a seaman apprentice in the Navy from 1948 to 1949 After law school he worked as an attorney for Anheuser-Busch Inc Eagleton and his wife Barbara have two children Terrence 13 and Chriswi 10 McGovern Sought A Young Liberal 4th Time in 5 Years Rule Re tained by Elks FREEPORT Tex (UPI) Two heavily armed black men who hijacked a jetliner over New York City Wednesday night released three hostage stewardesses from the stranded plane Thursday at a Texas commuter airstrip and surrendered to the FBI The plane commandeered for $600000 ransom had blown four tires in landing at the small commuter field near here Federal agents had surrounded the jetliner and negotiated with the hijackers through bullhorns for hours Three crewmembers were injured in the hijacking which began over New York Wednesday night One stewardess was released unhurt but the hijackers held three others aboard the stranded jetliner on the small airstrip 50 miles south of Houston The hijackers demanded another smaller airplane a pilot wearing only swimming trunks so he could not hide a weapon They said they would leave the ransom Fischer Boris the Capitalist? 214 REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) US Grand Master Bobby Fischer forfeited the second game of the $250000 world championship chess match to Boris Spassky of Russia Thursday Aides said the temperamental challenger stayed in bed to protest the presence of television cameras in the contest hall The forfeiture put Fischer 29 two games down in his attempt to wrest the champi By SAUL FRIEDMAN Herald Convention Bureau A good face youth a clean and liberal record and Catholicism They all helped make Sen Thomas Francis Eagleton 42 of St Louis George running mate on the 1972 ratic ticket But in addition to these qualities McGovern wanted a man much like himself Throughout campaign the South Dakota senator has been saying that he wanted a vice president who first of all could take the top job at a notice This was a cliche and scheduled start of the second game He and Schmid walked slowly around the stage waiting for the challenger The audience sat silently in the hall watched the empty black swivel chair that Fischer had flown in from New York for the match Spassky went backstage at one point then returned and studied the flower arrangements and other decorations The Russian appeared calm and relaxed Schmid then started the ATLANTIC CITY NJ (AP) Delegates to the national convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks voted Thursday against opening the organization to nonwhites A two-thirds majority rejected a resolution that would have deleted the clause from the constitution It was the fourth time in five years that the Elks the largest fraternal organization with a membership of more than 15 million voted to retain the controver Forfeits onship from Spassky Judge Lothar Schmid of West Germany announced the forefeiture when Fischer playing the white pieces failed to show up within the alloted hour to make the first move of the second game The announcement drew applause from Icelanders in the hall FISCHER'S AIDES say he never signed the Amsterdam regulations set up prior to the match to govern its play Fischer said after his de Game No 2 Protesting Cameras feat in the opening game Wednesday that he would not' play unless all television cameras were removed from the hall Negotiations between the organizers and representatives went on throughout the day Thursday in an effort to resolve the impasse Representatives of Chester Fox Inc the firm that bought exclusive television and picture rights to the match took part in tb nego IT i' L-r-.

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